People will actually vote for who they think is the least attractive in the comments, and whichever girl’s name is written the most will be awarded a big fat X drawn across her face.

This is a real concern. Talk to your children. Are they on Instagram? Really?

The great thing is that the author took the haters head on (in a nice way by posting inspirational messages and asking them to stop the beauty contests) and some of the behaviour has turned around:

Slowly but surely, this little posse of fourth and fifth grade girls — who had just spent hours feeling bad about themselves — picked themselves up and took to Instagram to post inspirational messages of their own.

The author continues:

So, when my kids get home tonight — they are 7 and 10 and yes, they are both on Instagram — I’m going to take a few moments before all the after-school craziness begins to really sit down and talk to them about what it means to use social media correctly and responsibly.